GOOD
MORNING
Women offered
self-defense class
AUBURN — The Auburn
Police Department will offer
Rape Aggression Defense
class.
The class will meet in four
sessions, Nov. 18 and 25 and
Dec. 2 and 9 from 6-9 p.m.
at the police
station in
downtown
Auburn.
Participants
must attend
all four
classes.
The course is open to
women ages 13 and older.
A hands-on, self-defense
class, it will teach women
techniques to defend
themselves in different
situations.
The class fee is $5 for
first-time students. Returning
students may attend free of
charge.
Information is available
on the Auburn Police Department Facebook/Twitter site
by calling the police department at 920-3200, ext. 1970,
Monday through Friday from
7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Brochures
are available in the police
department lobby.

Zoeller defends law
on abortion clinic
INDIANAPOLIS (AP)
— Attorney General Greg
Zoeller is arguing a federal
judge should uphold a new
law that would shut down
Lafayette’s only abortion
clinic.
Zoeller said Wednesday
the law reflects the will of
Indiana citizens.
Indiana lawmakers
approved a series of new
building requirements for
clinics that dispense the
RU-486 abortion pill. The
law would force Planned
Parenthood to shut down
its clinic in Lafayette
unless major upgrades were
completed.
Supporters of the new law
say it’s needed to protect
women’s health. Opponents
call it an attempt to limit
abortions.
The American Civil
Liberties Union of Indiana
sued over the summer
seeking to block the new
law before it takes effect
Jan. 1.

Spooky strike at Healthy Halloween Fair
Jeffrey Griggs, 3, throws a bean bag through a
ghost frame Tuesday during the Healthy Halloween
Fair at the DeKalb County 4-H Fairgrounds. His
mother, Jessica Griggs of Avilla, is behind him at
center. Hundreds of parents and children turned
out Tuesday to enjoy games, a bounce house,

cider and popcorn. Local organizations such as
the Waterloo Public Library and the Judy A. Morrill
Recreation Center hosted booths with games. The
event has been hosted by DeKalb Health hospital
since the mid-1980s.

Stutzman backs food stamp change
WASHINGTON — The Farm
Bill Conference Committee met
for the first time Wednesday, and
U.S. Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-3rd,
led a group of 27 House members
urging the committee to keep
farm policy and food stamp policy
separate.
Stutzman, of Howe, and his
colleagues asked the committee to
maintain separate reauthorization
dates for food stamp and farm
policy programs to ensure that
each program receives separate
consideration on its own merits in
the future.
“Washington is $17 trillion in
debt, and taxpayers deserve an
honest conversation about how
Congress spends their money,”

Stutzman said in a news release.
“Instead of passing trilliondollar spending packages that
are Farm Bills in name only, we
should consider
food stamps
and farm policy
separately. That’s
exactly what
the House did
earlier this year,
and the Conference Committee
shouldn’t reverse Stutzman
this historic
victory for transparency.”
In the letter, Stutzman and
other members wrote in part,
“Our constituents deserve a
Congress that thoughtfully and

separately considers the legislation that it passes. It’s just
common sense. And in a historic
move this summer, the House of
Representatives did just that. For
the first time in nearly 40 years,
the House voted on and passed
separate and substantive reform
bills governing farm and food
stamp policy.
“Now that substantial reforms
have been made, we request the
Conference Committee adopt the
separate reauthorization timelines,
three years for food stamps and
five years for farm policy, in order
to ensure that these policies are
debated and voted on apart from
each other in the future. It’s time
to do this right.”

WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama’s
embattled top health official
declared herself accountable
Wednesday for failures of the
much-maligned health insurance
website as a newly surfaced
government memo pointed to
security concerns that were laid out
just days before its launch.
Despite the problems, Health
and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius defended the
health care overhaul, the signature
legislative accomplishment of
Obama’s first term. She said the
website problems will be fixed
by Nov. 30 and gaining health
insurance will make a positive
difference in the lives of millions
of Americans.
The website HealthCare.gov
was still experiencing outages,
even as Sebelius was testifying to
the House Energy and Commerce
Committee that “I’m responsible.”
And she faced a new range of
questions about an internal memo
from her department that revealed
the troubled website was granted
a temporary security certificate on
Sept. 27, just four days before it
went live on Oct. 1.
The memo, obtained by The
Associated Press, said incomplete
testing created uncertainties that
posed a potentially high security
risk for the website. It called for a
six-month “mitigation” program,
including ongoing monitoring and
testing.
Republicans opposed to
Obama’s health care law are
calling for Sebelius to resign.
She apologized to people having
trouble signing up but told the
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DeKalb show features less talk, more songs
BY DAVE KURTZ
dkurtz@kpcmedia.com

WATERLOO — Co-director
Kent Johnson said DeKalb High
School’s theater department
always faces a good problem —
too much talent.
The dilemma becomes finding a
play or musical with “enough parts
to give our extremely talented
students opportunities to shine,”
he said.
This fall, Johnson and his wife
and co-director, Shelley, hit upon
a new solution — a musical revue.
“Beguiled Again” will take the
DeKalb auditorium stage Friday
at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.,
featuring 50 songs by legendary
composers Richard Rodgers and
Lorenz Hart.
Kent Johnson said last
spring when DeKalb presented
“Oklahoma!” by Rodgers and his
second partner, Oscar Hammerstein II, he released that today’s
high school students don’t know
the music of great composers from
the first half of the 20th century.
That makes “Beguiled Again” an
educational tool as well as a good
show.
“Rodgers and Hart were just
fun,” Johnson said. “Hart’s lyrics
have this great, turn-of-phrase wit
about them. … The only one who
compares is Cole Porter.”
“Beguiled Again” moves

DAVE KURTZ

With a photo of the composers hanging behind
them, DeKalb High School seniors Emily Lieb,
Jeffrey Slaven, Megan Buss and Julianne Boyd
sing “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.” The

through its 50 songs at a fast pace,
including “My Funny Valentine,“
“The Lady is a Tramp,” “Blue
Moon” and “Bewitched, Bothered

Library
to focus
on Lida
Leasure
AUBURN — The life
and accomplishments of
the first woman elected to
public office in Indiana
will be celebrated during
a special program at the
Eckhart Public Library,
Nov. 16 from 3-4 p.m.
Dr. Lida Leasure lived
in DeKalb County with her
husband, John, who owned
the Auburn City Hardware
store. More than 100 years
ago, she was elected the
first countywide school
superintendent in Indiana
and was a teacher, principal
and superintendent of the
Auburn City Schools.
She played a key role
in the founding of a public
library in Auburn and was
involved in the Women’s
Christian Temperance
Union and in literary circles.
She was a published author,
poet and speaker.
Leasure died in 1931,
and her husband followed in
1932. They are interred in
the Auburn Mausoleum.
A member of Leasure’s
family has not lived in
Auburn since that time,
and now DeKalb County
Historian John Bry has
located her modern-day
descendants. They will be
welcomed back to Auburn
at the Nov. 16 program.
Those planning to attend
the program are asked
to RSVP at the library
information desk, 925-2414,
ext. 120. Refreshments will
be served.

Briefly
•
Business plans open
house this weekend
HICKSVILLE, Ohio —
Dave Brown Designs will
present a Christmas Open
House this Friday through
Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. each day.
The store is on the
Indiana-Ohio state line at
11907 S.R. 2, Hicksville,
Ohio.

Officers arrest two
AUBURN — Local
police officers arrested two
people Tuesday night and
Wednesday, according to
DeKalb County Jail records.
Levi Strawser, 23, of the
8100 block of South 200E,
Columbia City, was arrested
Tuesday at 8:18 p.m. by the
DeKalb County Sheriff’s
Department for an alleged
probation violation.
Mariah Derrow, 24, of
the 4300 block of C.R.
38, Auburn, was arrested
Wednesday at 2:06 p.m.
by the DeKalb County
Sheriff’s Department for
alleged failure to appear in
court on charges of possession of paraphernalia, a
Class A misdemeanor, and
possession of paraphernalia
with a prior conviction, a
Class D felony

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Hoosier State Press Association for
excellence in reporting in 2012.

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Trine invites fresh ideas
ANGOLA — Trine
University’s Innovation
One is offering the Innovation Challenge presented by
Fifth Third Bank to find the
best ideas and concepts for
business and technology.
A panel of judges will
select finalists who will
present their ideas in April.
Winners will be announced
publicly.
Fifth Third Bank is
supporting the five-year
challenge with a $100,000
gift for awards and scholarships. The challenge is open
to residents and students
in Indiana, Michigan and
Ohio.
For the technology
category, participants are
encouraged to think about
technological inventions
or advances. Entries in the
business category should
focus on a new business
idea or service. Cash prizes
will be awarded for first
through third place in each
category. First place is

worth $2,500, with $1,000
for second and $500 for
third. Prizes will also be
given for best high school
entry, best university entry
and best community entry.
Cash prizes are unrestricted,
so winners may use the
money to advance their idea
or spend it another way.
“I’m excited to see the
top-notch ideas this contest
will generate,” said Tom
DeAgostino, Innovation One
director. “I’ve talked with
area residents who have new
ideas and methods, and I
encourage everyone to take
the Innovation Challenge
and promote their concepts.
This challenge could yield
the next great idea.”
“Fifth Third Bank has a
long-standing commitment
to economic development in
each of the communities it
serves,” said Nancy Huber,
president of Fifth Third
Bank (Central and Northeast
Indiana).
Entering the Innova-

tion Challenge is free, and
there are no age restrictions. Application forms
are due by Jan. 10. Full
project submissions will be
accepted between Jan. 1 and
March 1, 2014. A competition open house is set for
April 10, 11 and 12, and
winners will be announced
April 12. For an application or more information,
visit innovation1.org,
call 665-4133 or email
smwilson@my.trine.edu.
Innovation One, housed
in Trine’s new Jim and
Joan Bock Center for
Innovation and Biomedical
Engineering, is a venture
that brings ideas to market
by providing expertise and
services to help promote
economic growth in
northeast Indiana and the
region. Among the services
offered are engineering
consulting, prototyping,
research and development,
testing and assessment and
market research.

DOWNTOWN AUBURN

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Lawsuit contends
police dumped ashes
MUNCIE (AP) — A
central Indiana man has
filed a lawsuit against two
law enforcement agencies,
saying a detective dumped
his dead mother’s ashes in
the trash during a search of
his home.
Joshua Baker of Muncie
contends that Muncie police
detectives searched his home
in October 2011 while he
was at police headquarters being questioned by a
Randolph County sheriff’s
detective about a robbery,
The Star Press reported.

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Fishing lure
show a success
FORT WAYNE — The
National Fishing Lure
Collectors Club seventh
antique fishing lure show
sold out hundreds of tables
of wares Saturday.
More than 300 people
attended the event at at
Don Hall’s Guesthouse and
Convention Center.
“This was by far the
largest and most successful
fall show we have had,” said
organizer Bob King. “Of
interest were the number
of people who brought in
old family lures looking
for information on how old
and where they were made.
People were trying to find
out if they were as old or
older than they thought.”
Lures as old as the early
1900s were taken to the
show. King said it was a
surprise to their owners,
“who thought they came
from grandparents — not
great-grandparents.”
While they brought
items to be assessed, said
King, “No one this year was
interested in parting with
their treasures.”
The exception to this was
the owner of a very early
outboard motor, made in
Muncie that sold for several
hundred dollars.
In 2014, Fort Wayne
will host the National
Fishing Lure Collectors
Club National Convention.
This is expected to bring
over 600 members and their
families into the area. When
they convene, Fort Wayne

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People browse table after table of antique fishing lures and gear during Saturday’s
National Fishing Lure Collectors event in Fort Wayne.

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

These antique reels were
among the items on
display.

will become the site of the
worlds largest
collection of collectible
fishing equipment with
10s of 1,000s of lures on
display.
The NFLCC is a
non-profit, educational,
international organization founded in 1976. The
primary objectives of the
NFLCC are to foster an
awareness of fishing tackle
collecting as a hobby and
to assist members in the
location, identification and
trading of vintage fishing-related equipment.

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

ANGOLA — Who is
living at your house?
That is the theme of the
annual 101 Lakes Trust
Writing Contest.
Submissions such as
fiction, poetry or recounting
an experience are sought.
Submissions recounting an
experience must involve the
writer and an animal nearby
resulting in an increased
empathy or understanding
of it.
First-place adults and
student winners will receive
$50 in each category of
prose and poetry. Secondplace adult and student
winners will receive $25 and
honorable mention winners
will receive $10.
Sponsors are 101 Lakes
Trust and The Herald
Republican.
Judges will be Mike
Marturello, Amy Oberlin
and Jennifer Decker from
The Herald Republican.
The deadline is May 5,
2014.
Entries may be submitted
to tjonesfrancis@gmail.com
or typed entries to 101 Lakes
Trust Inc., P.O. Box 642,
Angola, IN 46703.
On a separate piece of
paper, entrants are asked
to place the first sentence
of their writing; writing
category and name, address,
telephone number and email
address. Do not put a name
on the composition.
For more details, call
616-540-7419 or 495-4211.

Is increased use of essential oils robbing from the earth?
Dear EarthTalk: What’s
the skinny on essential oils?
I love them, but a friend told
me they are no good for the
environment.
— Mary M., via e-mail
Essential oils are more
popular than ever for
medicinal and therapeutic
purposes as well as in
fragrances and flavorings for
food and drinks. Typically
produced by harvesting and
distilling large amounts
of various types of plant
matter, essential oils are
in many cases all-natural
and can take the place of
synthetic chemicals in
many consumer applications. But some wonder
whether our fascination with
essential oils is so good for
the planet, now that their
popularity has turned them
into big business.
“It often takes hundreds
of pounds of plant
material to make one
pound of essential oil,”
reports aromatherapist
and author Mindy Green
of GreenScentsations.
com. She adds that it takes
50-60 pounds of eucalyptus
to produce one pound of
eucalyptus oil, 200-250
pounds of lavender for one
pound of lavender oil, 2,000

pounds of cypress for a
pound of cypress oil and as
many as 10,000 pounds of
rose blossoms for one pound
of rose oil. Production of
these source crops takes
place all over the world and
is often organized by large
multinational corporations
with little regard for local
economies or ecosystems.
“Growing the substantial
quantities of plant material
needed to produce essential
oils results in a monoculture
style of farming, with large
swaths of land dedicated
to a single species,” says
Green. “These systems are
most efficiently managed by
intense mechanization, and
irrigation is frequently used
for optimal oil production of
the plants.”
“As global citizens
we have not learned how
to equitably distribute
vital resources like food,
and water resources are
trending toward a crisis of
the future,” adds Green,
“so there are deep ethical
concerns about devoting
croplands to essential oils
destined for use in candles,
bath oils, perfumes, or
lavish massage and spa
purposes.” Green also warns
that many essential oils are
not produced from sustain-

NRA marks the sale of 1
millionth handbook copy
FAIRFAX, Va. — The
National Rifle Association has recently sold its 1
millionth copy of the NRA
Guide to the Basics of Pistol
Shooting. Known as the
Basic Pistol handbook, the
guide is a comprehensive
resource on responsible
pistol use and is the foundation of NRA’s popular Basic
Pistol and FIRST Steps
Pistol Orientation courses.
First published in July
2009, the Basic Pistol
handbook was written with
the intent of becoming an
at-home reference guide
for gun owners. Topics
included in the guide are
basic firearm safety, storage
options, range rules, target

scoring and basic fundamentals such as shooting
positions, grip and aiming.
The guide can be purchased
both individually and as
part of a NRA Instructor-led
course from the NRA’s
Program Materials Center.

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able sources. “Some species
are at risk, particularly those
occupying marginal habitats
such as dwindling tropical
forests,” she reports, adding
that the poverty-stricken in
developing countries will
harvest and sell whatever
they can, in order to put
food on their own tables.
Cropwatch, a non-profit
that keeps tabs on the
natural aromatics industry,
maintains a list of wild
species threatened by the
fast-growing essential oil
trade. Of particular concern
are essential oils derived
from rosewood, sandalwood, amyris, thyme,
cedarwood, jatamansi,
gentian, wormwood and
cinnamon, among others,
as they may well be
derived from threatened
and illegally harvested wild
plant stocks.
Also, some essential
oils must be treated as
hazardous if spilled and
should be kept out of
sewers and local waterways.
Mountain Rose Herbs, a
leading retailer of essential
oils, reports that if its tea
tree oil spills, it should
be absorbed with inert
material and sealed it in a
container before disposal at
a hazardous waste collection

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED

Some wonder whether our fascination with essential oils is so good for the planet,
given that it can take hundreds if not thousands of pounds of plant material to
make just one pound of an oil. Pictured: A lavender field at the Norfolk Lavender
farm and nursery and distillery in Heacham, Norfolk, England.

site. Such information is
included on the company’s
Material Safety Data Sheet
for every essential oil and
includes information about
flammability and chemical
composition. Consumers
would be well served to
check the MSDS for any
essential oils they might
like — Mountain Rose will
supply them to customers by

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Deaths & Funerals
•
Betty Taylor
KENDALLVILLE —
Betty Lou Taylor, age 87,
of Kendallville, was found
in her home on Sunday,
October 27,
2013, having
passed away
earlier.
Mrs.
Taylor was
born in Flint,
Indiana,
on August
Mrs. Taylor
5, 1926,
to the late
Paul A. Arnold and Beulah
(Robinson) Arnold.
She graduated from
Kendallville High School in
1944 and also from lab tech
school in St. Louis.
She married John Allen
Taylor on May 3, 1950,
in Kendallville and he
preceded her in death in
April of 1987.
Betty was a lab technician and employed 35
years at McCray Hospital
in Kendallville before she
retired in 1986.
Betty loved watching
Chicago Cubs baseball and
spending time visiting with
family and friends. She and
John traveled all over the
world.
She enjoyed wintering in
Arizona.
Betty was a member of
the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
and an active board member
on the Community Concert
Association. She was also
a member of the Trinity
Church United Methodist.
Survivors include her
sister, Hilda Caywood of
Fort Wayne, and a sisterin-law, Phyllis Arnold of
Kokomo.
Although Betty never had
any children of her own, she
considered her numerous
nieces and nephews as her
children. Those locally
include Colleen and David
Young of Avilla; Patrick and
Betty Arnold of Kendallville; Maureen Arnold of
Kokomo; Sam and Myrna
Arnold of Brimfield; Jack
and Mary Arnold of Rome
City; Roger and Arlean
Lehman of Pleasant Lake;
Delbert and Penny Lehman
of Angola; Larry Lehman
of Angola, Shirley Thrush
of Angola; Richard and Peg
Shutts of Jimerson Lake
and many others across
the country. Also, many
great-nieces and nephews
survive as well.
She was also preceded
in death by three brothers,
Harold Arnold, Homer
Arnold and Paul Arnold Jr.,
and fours sisters, Mildred
Shutts, Pauline Lehman,
Gladys Lehman and Emma
Jane Arnold.
Visitation will be today,
Thursday, from noon to 3
p.m. and 5-7 p.m. at Hite
Funeral Home in Kendallville.
Funeral services will be
Friday, November 1, 2013,

at 2 p.m. at Hite Funeral
Home with Pastor Regan
Ford conducting the service.
Burial will be at Lake
View Cemetery in Kendallville.
Preferred memorials may
be made to Trinity Church
or Velda Rose United
Methodist Church, Mesa,
Arizona, or the American
Lung Association
Send a condolence to
the family or view a video
tribute of Betty bytoday at
www.hitefuneralhome.com.

Steven Barkman
AUBURN — Steven L.
Barkman, 54, of Auburn,
died Tuesday, October
29, 2013, at his home in
Auburn.
He was
born July
12, 1959, in
Elkhart.
He was
a graduate
of DeKalb
High School
where he was Mr. Barkman
a member
of the cross
country and track teams.
After graduating from
high school, he graduated
from Manchester College
where he received a degree
in business. He worked at
Magnavox in Auburn for 20
years.
He was a member of
Saint Mark’s Lutheran
Church, Auburn.
His hobbies were
studying genealogy, Indiana
University sports and
Chicago White Sox baseball.
He is survived by his
parents, Richard and Sally
Barkman of Auburn; a
brother and sister-in-law,
Michael and Patricia
Barkman of Avon; a sister
and brother-in-law, Lori
and Jeff Fitch of Alameda,
Calif.; and nephews,
Nicholas Barkman of
Indianapolis and Erick
Barkman of Phoenix, Ariz.
Funeral services will be
held Saturday at 10 a.m.,
with visitation 30 minutes
prior, at Pinnington-McComb Funeral & Cremation
Services, 502 N. Main St.,
Auburn.
Visitation will also be
held on Friday from 4-7
p.m. at the funeral home.
Burial will be in Chapel
Hill Memorial Gardens,
Osceola, Ind.
Memorials are to the
DeKalb Humane Society.
To sign the online guest
book or to leave a message
of condolence, visit www.
pinnington-mccomb.com.

Cynthia Miller
WAWAKA — Cynthia
(Combs) Miller, 71, died at
home on Wednesday, Oct.
31, 2013.
Funeral arrangements are
pending with Hite Funeral
Home in Kendallville.

James Smith

Robert was born in 1952.
They moved to Pittsburgh
SUNRISE BEACH, Mo.
in 1954 after their daughter
— James E. Smith, 75, of
Susan was born.
Sunrise Beach and formerly
Richard worked for GM,
of Angola, Ind., passed away Koppers, and Rockwell in
Monday, October 28, 2013,
marketing until he started
at his home.
his own marketing firm
Mr. Smith served in the
(Marketing Service AssociAir Force as a KC 97 crew
ates) in 1961. He sold the
member out
firm in about 1993, but
of Whiteman continued working on an
Air Force
emeritus basis for a few
Base,
more years.
Missouri,
Outside the work arena,
and retired
Richard had two intense
in 2003 from interests: music and sports.
TFE Inc., in
He sang in church choirs
Columbia
and barbershop quartets,
City, Ind.
Mr. Smith
played boogie-woogie
He was
piano by ear, and was
born May
always corralling his kids
10, 1938, in LaGrange
to listen to music with
County, Ind., to Buryl and
him — from classical to
Irene Parker Smith. He was
bluegrass to the Rolling
married 55 years to Barbara Stones. As for sports –
Stevens Smith who survives besides playing hoops
at their home.
through college — he was
Also surviving are
a scratch golfer, playing
three sons, Jeffrey A. and
on the amateur circuit as
Suzy Smith of Waterloo,
a young man, winning
Ind., Scott B. and Pam
the club championship at
K. Smith of Middlebury,
Valleybrook Country Club
Ind., and Barry L. and
in Pittsburgh, and winning
Kim L.Smith, Avon, Ohio;
the Southern States Senior
seven grandchildren; three
Amateur tournament. He
great-grandchildren; and a
taught his children how to
brother, Jack E. Smith of
play golf, and he always
Ashley, Ind.
found time to throw the
Memorial services will
ball around or shoot some
be Saturday at 1 p.m. at the
hoops with his son. He
Fairfield Community Center, was an avid fan — he
1131 C.R. 12, Corunna.
and Margaret were in
Memorials are to the
attendance at the seventh
American Heart Associagame of the World Series
tion or your local humane
in 1960, and he continued
society.
as a Steelers and Pirates
The Allen Holman
fan.
Funeral Home in Camdenton
He was a kind and
was in charge of arrangegenerous father and
ments.
grandfather with a strong
sense of what should be
done, and high expectations
Richard Andres
for all.
ANGOLA — Richard
Richard was pre-deCourtland Andres died
ceased
by the love of
peacefully on October 28,
his life, Margaret, five
2013.
months ago and by his twin
Born May 20, 1925, to
brother, Robert Andres.
Bruce Andres and married
He is survived by his
to Ruth Goodrich in
son, Robert Andres and
Logansport, Ind., Richard
his wife Rachel of Pelham,
attended schools in Kansas
Mass.; his daughter, Susan
City and Pittsburgh.
His family had a cottage Devlin; and her husband,
Curt of Mt. Lebanon, Pa.;
on Lake James in Angola,
and his grandkids (to whom
Ind., where he spent his
he was known as Poppop)
summers.
Richard (known as Ernie Ian and Kristin Andres, and
or RC to his friends) played Brian and Danny Devlin.
He is also survived by
varsity basketball, ran track,
his twin brother’s wife,
and golfed in high school.
Zelma.
At the age of 18 he
Graveside services
enlisted in the Army Air
conducted by the Rev.
Corps and served in WWII
Thomas E. Smith will
until age 21.
be at 10 a.m. Saturday,
He attended Allegheny
November 2, 2013, at
College on the GI bill and
Circle Hill Cemetery,
graduated in 1949 with a
Angola, Indiana, with
degree in economics. He
then obtained an MBA from military honors by Angola
American Legion Post 31.
the University of Indiana,
Richard will be buried
majoring in marketing.
with his ancestors in a
He married Margaret
family plot at Circle Hill
Owens, whom he met at
Cemetery.
Lake James, on December
Weicht Funeral Home
30, 1950, just prior to
in Angola is in charge of
graduation. They started
their life together in Cincin- arrangements.
You may sign the
nati, Ohio, where Richard
guestbook at www.
worked, and their son
weichtfh.com.

LAGRANGE — Anna
Mae Miller, 94, of LaGrange,
Ind., died Wednesday,
October 30, 2013, at Miller’s
Merry Manor in LaGrange.
Mrs. Miller was born
on April
23, 1919,
in Custer
County,
Okla., to
Benjamin S.
and Deemy
(Yoder)
Yoder. They
preceded her Mrs. Miller
in death.
In 1937,
she moved to LaGrange
County from Kalona, Iowa.
She worked for many years
at Paramont Furniture in
Sturgis, Mich.
Mrs. Miller was a member
of Mt. Zion Lutheran Church
in LaGrange, Ind., and was
a volunteer at LaGrange
County Council on Aging
and Life Care Center of
LaGrange.
Mrs. Miller was a
beautiful seamstress and
loved to make quilts.
On June 13, 1937 in
Kalona, Iowa, she married
Samuel J. Miller. He
preceded her in death on July
11, 1975.
Surviving are four
daughters, Grace (Bill)
Gallaway of Glendale, Ariz.,
Thelma (Walter) Elkins of
Helmer, Ind., Ruby Heiman
of Elkhart, Ind., and Patsy
(Brian) Clark of Houghton
Lake, Mich.; four sons,
Melvin R. (Rita) Miller of
LaGrange, Ind., Calvin J.
(Betsy) Miller of LaGrange,
Ind., Charles E. Miller
of Bountiful, Utah, and
Samuel Dean (Charlotte)
Miller of Talladega, Ala.;
28 grandchildren; 65
great-grandchildren; 23
great-great-grandchildren;
and a brother, Ben J. Yoder
of California.
Also preceding her in
death was a daughter, Elmeta
M. Myers; two sons, Allen
Dale Miller and Kenneth L.
Miller; two sisters; and two
brothers.
Funeral services will be
held on Monday, November
4, 2013, at 10 a.m. at Mt.
Zion Lutheran Church, 797
N. Detroit St., LaGrange,
Ind., with the Rev. Sandra
Hutchens officiating. Burial
will follow at Greenwood
Cemetery in LaGrange, Ind.
Visitation will be on
Sunday, November 3, 2013,
from 2-6 p.m. at Frurip-May
Funeral Home, 309 W.
Michigan St., LaGrange, Ind.
Memorials may be made
to LaGrange County Council
on Aging.
Condolences may be left
for the family at www.frurip
mayfuneralhome.com.

ALBION — Delores J.
Miller, age 84, of Albion,
Ind., passed away at 3:23 a.m.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013,
at Parkview Regional Medical
Center in Fort Wayne with her
family by her
side.
Born on
July 10, 1929,
in Van Wert
County, Ohio,
she was the
daughter of
Orval and
Nora (Kiehl) Mrs. Miller
North.
She graduated from Wren
High School, Wren, Ohio,
with the class of 1947.
On August 17, 1947, she
married Clifford L. Miller in
Ohio. In 1969, they moved
from Ohio to Noble County.
She was a librarian for
Central Noble School Corporation in Wolf Lake, with 33
years of service, retiring in
2004.
She is a member of Sparta
United Church of Christ,
Kimmell, and was a past 4-H
leader and Noble County Fair
Board member and Wolf Lake
Lions Club member.
Survivors include her
daughters, Rebecca Faor
of Fort Wayne and Tonya
(Larry) Norden of Avilla; her
grandchildren, Angela (Mark)
Hardiek, Michael (Jean)
Norkooli and Brandi Ott; her
great-grandchildren, Autumn,
Megan and Haley; and a
special friend, Alton Parker of
Albion.
She was preceded in death
by her parents; her husband;
a sister, Jean Lehman; and a
daughter, Cynthia Miller.
Visitation will be held on
Friday, November 1, 2013,
from 2 to 8 p.m. at DeMoneyGrimes Countryside Park
Funeral Home, 600 Countryside Drive, Columbia City.
Funeral services will be
held at 10 a.m. Saturday,
November 2, 2013, at the
funeral home with Pastor
Wray McCalester officiating. Graveside service will
follow at 1 p.m. at Woodland
Cemetery, Van Wert, Ohio.
Memorial gifts may be
given in Mrs. Miller’s memory
to the Lions Club or Cancer
Services of Northeast Indiana.
Please visit www.
demoneygrimes.com to send
family condolences or sign the
guest register book.

Sally West

BATTLE CREEK, Mich.
— Sally Joan West, 68, of
Battle Creek died Sunday,
Oct. 27, 2013, at the Bronson
Battle Creek Hospital in Battle
Creek.
She had resided in Battle
Creek for the past year,
coming from Angola, Ind. She
had formerly lived in the metro
Detroit area.
Larry Timmis
She was born June 29,
LAGRANGE — Larry L. 1945, in Wayne County,
Mich., to Thomas and Ila
Timmis, 81, of LaGrange,
IN died Wednesday, October (Seaton) Mackie.
Surviving are a son, Shawn
30, 2013, at Parkview
West of Champaign, Ill.; a
Regional Medical Center in
daughter, Amy West Filer of
Fort Wayne, IN.
Topeka, Ind.; five grandchilFuneral services will be
held on Saturday, November dren; and a brother, Harry
Mackie of Palatine, Ill.
2, 2013, at 11:00 a.m.
Visitation will be from
at Frurip-May Funeral
2-3:45 p.m. Friday at the
Home, 309 W. Michigan
Hackman Family Funeral
St., LaGrange, IN with
Homes — Hackman Chapel,
Pastor Rustin Krapfl offici114 S. Nottawa St., Sturgis,
ating. Burial will follow
Mich.
at Greenwood Cemetery
Funeral services will be at
in LaGrange, IN. The
LaGrange American Legion 4 p.m. Friday at the funeral
home.
Post #215 will conduct a
Private burial will be at
graveside service.
the Acacia Park Cemetery in
Visitation will be on
Beverly Hills, Mich.
Friday, November 1, 2013.
Memorials to the charity of
from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the
the donor’s choice.
funeral home.
To send online condolences
Memorials may be made
go to www.hackmanfamilyfu
to Brighton Chapel.
neralhome.com.
Condolences may be
left for the family at www.
fruripmayfuneralhome.com. ADDITIONAL OBITUARIES can be
A full obituary will
found on Page A8 of the Herald
appear in Friday’s edition.
Republican; Page A7 of The Star;
and Page A8 of the News Sun.

Nobel Peace
Prize sends
messages
The Norwegian Nobel Committee
on Oct. 11 announced its decision to
award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013
to the Organization for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The
Hague-based organization, created in
1997 to implement the 1992 Chemical
Weapons Convention (CWC) to prohibit
the production, storage and use of
It is noteworthy that chemical
weapons,
the committee explicitly will receive
$1.25
named the United States the
million prize
and Russia in stating in Oslo on
Dec. 10,
that certain states have the 117th
failed to observe the anniversary of
April 2012 deadline, Nobel Prize
under the CWC, to founder
Alfred
destroy their arsenals of Nobel’s
chemical weapons. death.
The
committee’s
message
is clear. It
hopes that
awarding the
prize to the
OPCW will accelerate global efforts to
eliminate chemical weapons, which are
relatively cheap and easy to produce and
can indiscriminately kill or injure large
numbers of people.
It is noteworthy that the committee
explicitly named the United States and
Russia in stating that certain states have
failed to observe the April 2012 deadline,
under the CWC, to destroy their arsenals
of chemical weapons. Both countries —
which together possess some 95 percent
of the global stockpile of chemical
weapons — should move quickly to fulfill
their responsibilities.
The Nobel Committee decision will
also exert pressure on six countries that
have yet to become members of the
CWC: Israel, Myanmar, North Korea,
Egypt, South Sudan and Angola.
Another message is the committee’s
hope that the OPCW will complete its
task of eliminating Syria’s chemical
weapons by mid-2014, with the cooperation of both the Syrian government and
rebel forces as well as the support of the
entire international community. On Oct.
14, Syria, which is believed to have some
1,000 tons of chemical weapons, became
the 140th country to join the CWC.
Following widespread use of chemical
weapons in World War I, the 1925
Geneva Protocol banned their usage
in war but not their production or
stockpiling. The United Nations General
Assembly on Nov. 30, 1992, approved
the CWC, which bans the production and
storage of chemical weapons as well as
their use.
In August, more than 1,400 people
were killed in a chemical weapons attack
near Damascus. Under a U.S.-Russia
deal, Syria must destroy its chemical
weapons-filling equipment and production facilities by the end of November
and eliminate its chemical weapons by
mid-2014.
OPCW workers are now inspecting
and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons.
This is an unprecedented mission as it is
being carried out amid a brutal civil war.
Government and rebel forces must let
the OPCW team do its job in a safe and
efficient manner. Japan should consider
how it can help facilitate this vital work.

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DeKalb football will
be stronger next season
To the editor:
Hello, I am a student at the DeKalb
CHANGE Academy in Auburn. I have the
opportunity to read The Star newspaper
every morning and I do so. I like to keep
up to date on my high school sports. And,
as far as I can tell, my high school football
team for DeKalb is not doing so hot this
season. I have been to all the home games
this year and it really makes me miss it.
I’ve been playing football ever since I
was in third grade. My freshman year at
DeKalb I played football for the freshman
team. We went 4-5 that season and I
played fullback and middle linebacker.
In ninth grade I was 5 foot, 8 inches
and 185 pounds. I might not have been the
biggest but I was the meanest on the field.
Now I am almost a senior and I am 6 foot
and 220 pounds. What I’m getting to is
when I go to the football games and see
who is playing this season, I see boys that
are still bigger than me! They are monsters
out there!
This is my opinion on why we are not
winning games. We have the talent, the
speed, the muscle. We have the physical
ability to go to state. But there is one
missing key piece to the puzzle … DeKalb
High School football needs the attitude, the
spirit, the motivation to achieve greatness.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight,
it’s the size of the fight in the dog! DeKalb
needs to work on the mental and emotional
side of football. We need to teach them to
be afraid of nothing. Determination equals
domination. Play with heart and emotions.
We need to treat every season like a war
and every game like a battle.
Each individual player needs to believe
in himself. Just because that running back

doing their job. Now, thanks to our new
director who apparently has too much time
on her hands just by asking cameras to
do her job, our “hometown” feeling has
become her “big city” operation. We need
to get, no, take back our pride and congratulate our drivers for a job well done while
they still have a job.
It is sad that the director and mechanics
are driving routes every day. The word
is out. No subs. Will be hard to come by
under present conditions. I personally
would not recommend being a sub to
anyone I know under present conditions.
I was transportation director for 15 years.
I had trust in my drivers, no need for
cameras to do my job. I filled many hats. I
worked on buses, computer routing (with
the help of Ed Benbow), scheduled field
trips, plowed snow, drove roads to report
bad road conditions to superintendent. I
managed drivers. Did we have issues? Yes.
I was a manager not looking for who I
could fire next.
For 15 years, two of us did the job
that it now takes six of you to do. Seems
Dylan Harmes wasteful.
I’m proud of my record with DeKalb
Auburn
Central transportation.

is 6 foot, 4 inches, and 240 pounds does
not mean you can’t lay him out! Fear no
man, no matter what his size, for I will
equalize. It’s been two years since I’ve
been in pads. Football was taken from
me because I made stupid decisions and
mistakes. But I have learned from my
mistakes. I will be back next season and I
will be stronger than ever.
I ask the community to not give up on
DeKalb football because it is still alive and
well in the veins of your boys. When I go
back for my senior year and play varsity
I’m going to show and teach those players
to be mean and tough and play with
emotion and heart. Teach them to play
with kill-or-be-killed attitude and show no
mercy! But still have discipline and sportsmanship. No more jukes and spines and
twists. Next season it’s gonna be “Look
out ’cause I’m gonna put my shoulder
down and run you over.” Better be ready
next season DeKalb football ’cause I’m
coming for you and I’m gonna go to state
and I’m gonna take you with me, if you
like it or not!

Transportation department
should trust bus drivers

Francis Dulle, Auburn
Former transportation director 15 years

To the editor:
What’s happening at DeKalb Central
transportation? It appears several drivers
have been given the opportunity to retire
or be fired. It is sad when drivers are not
trusted and the need to have cameras on
drivers and monitors on speedometers
to see if drivers are dotting their i’s and
crossing their t’s.
This is a school district that has many
good drivers that have driven thousands
of miles and have always been trusted for

DEKALB CENTRAL SCHOOLS transportation
director Renee Dawson said her department
has a roster of seven or eight substitute drivers.
Dawson said she and the bus mechanics
sometimes choose to drive routes when a
substitute is needed at the last minute, because
that makes it easier to stay on schedule.
“I drive even when not needed,” Dawson
said. “I can tell a lot about a route by driving
it. I think it’s good to be out there doing what
your people are doing. … Sometimes I choose
to drive versus getting a sub.”

Indiana State Police offer Halloween safety tips

DENNIS
NARTKER

•

Parents and children
will be out in full force
tonight trick-or-treating
and the Indiana State
Police wants to remind
parents to observe a few
rules that will help make
the evening fun and safe.
• Costume tips: Keep
costumes short to prevent
trips and falls; try make-up
instead of a mask that can
obstruct a child’s vision;
wear light colors or reflective tape on costumes.
• Trick or treating:

Older children should trick-or-treat with
friends and provide parents a route so
the parents know where the children
will be. Instruct children to stop only at
familiar homes where the outside light
is on; encourage children to travel on
well-lighted streets; remind children not
to enter the homes or cars of strangers;
remind children to stay on the sidewalks
when walking to and from different
houses.
• Treats: Remind children not to eat
treats until they get home; check out all
treats at home; only eat unopened candies
and treats in original wrappers; inspect
fruits or anything suspicious.

• Homeowners: Turn on front light to
indicate your willingness to treat; consider
bringing pets inside and keeping them
away from visitors; distribute candies in
their original wrappers or boxes.

Daylight-saving time begins
Don’t forget to turn your clocks back
one hour before going to bed Saturday
night. Daylight-saving time begins at 2
a.m. Sunday.
DENNIS NARTKER is a reporter for The News
Sun. He can be reached at dnartker@kpcme
dia.com.

Transportation plays a key role in nonemergency health care
BY FLORA M. CASTILLO

The Affordable Care Act’s new
health insurance exchanges have
just opened for business.
Lawmakers may differ about the
best way forward for health reform.
But they should all be able to agree
that problems with transportation should not keep people from
securing the care they need.
According to the Federal Transit
Administration, about 3.6 million
Americans skip or delay nonemergency medical care every year
because of issues with transportation. Their doctor’s office may not
be conveniently reachable by public
transit or they may have trouble
transporting their entire family
when child care is unavailable.
Prevention is the key to a
successful health care system.
These missed appointments can

Guest Column
•
lead to the deterioration of a
person’s medical condition and
even greater health costs.
More than half of these 3.6
million folks have limited financial
resources, with household incomes
of less than $20,000 a year. A
number of them may be eligible for
Medicaid but have trouble putting
their coverage to use because they
struggle to get to the doctor.
Their limited mobility doesn’t
just jeopardize their health it also
exacerbates America’s health cost
crisis.
The FTA found that, compared
to the general population, these 3.6
million Americans are more likely
to suffer from chronic conditions
like high blood pressure or diabetes.

Chronic diseases are responsible for
75 percent of U.S. health expenditures, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
And if the people missing those
appointments are on Medicaid,
taxpayers shoulder the additional
costs that come about when patients
forego treatment and allow health
problems to grow serious.
Improving our health care system
will therefore require improving
Americans’ access to transportation.
Investing more in public transit and
coordinating existing transportation
service providers are both critical.
But money alone isn’t the
answer.
Policymakers should also take
advantage of the services that local
public transit agencies already offer.
Examples for how to do so abound.
Consider Cleveland’s Health-

Investing more in public
transit and coordinating
existing transportation service
providers are both critical.

•
Line service, which delivers
patients and riders to the Cleveland
Clinic and University Hospitals,
among other destinations, every
five minutes during the morning
and afternoon rush hours. Such
a system provides patients with
convenient, direct access to their
health care providers and increases
the likelihood that they’ll make
their appointments.
Since July 2009, New Jersey has
contracted with a broker to provide

NEMT to Medicaid beneficiaries.
The broker receives an annual
fee for each eligible patient. By
working with county community
transit systems and purchasing NJ
Transit bus and rail tickets when
appropriate, the broker has reduced
costs per passenger trip. Over 15
percent of the 5.2 million Medicaid
NEMT trips in 2012 were provided
by public or county community
transit.
Collaborative efforts like these
can go a long way toward helping
Americans make their doctor’s
appointments and thus stay healthy.
FLORA M. CASTILLO is the former
chairman of the American Public
Transportation Association, a vice
president at AmeriHealth Caritas
and a Board Member at New Jersey
Transit Inc.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013

In God’s Praise
•
Garrett church hosting
Trunk or Treat today
GARRETT — The Garrett Crossing of
the Nazarene will hold a Trunk or Treat
event today from 5-7 p.m. at the church,
105. W. 6th Ave.

Keystone church to host
Saturday fall festival
AUBURN — Keystone Community
Church will host a Family Fall Festival
Saturday at Westedge Trailer Park in
Auburn from 2-7 p.m.
Activities will include games for
families, a bounce house and food.

Cedar Lake church plans
Alternative Gift Fair for Nov. 9
AUBURN — The third annual Alternative Gift Fair is set for Saturday, Nov. 9,
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Cedar Lake
Church of the Brethren.
The event will provide opportunities to
buy gifts that honor the Christmas season by
contributing to organizations that make the
world a better place. Items will be available

for purchase or contributions can be made in
the name of a friend of family member.
Participating organizations include
Creative Women of the World from Fort
Wayne, which will be selling arts and crafts
made by women of the third world and
Equal Exchange coffee, tea and chocolate.
Soups for Success from Elkhart will have
packaged mixes for soups, dips and cookies.
The organization provides job and life skill
training for women who are in difficult life
circumstances.
Heifer Project International, which was
started by the Church of the Brethren,
provides animals to families around the
world with the stipulation that the first
offspring will be given to a neighbor so that
the gift is passed on.
Other organizations participating include
Auburn Kiwanis Holiday Loaf to support
Children’s First; Noble House (transitional
housing and training); Habitat for Humanity
of Northeast Indiana and Common Grace to
enable it to provide financial assistance for
needy households in Noble County.
Soups and homemade bread will be
served for a freewill offering to support St.
Martin’s Kitchen in Garrett.

Preschool story time:
10 a.m. This week’s theme:
Clifford. For children
3-5 years old and their
accompanying parents
or caregivers. Activities
include stories, songs,
rhymes, finger puppet
plays, snacks and crafts.
Garrett Public Library, 107
W. Houston St., Garrett.
Trick-or-Treating:
4-6 p.m. Presented by
the Downtown Auburn
Business Association.
Downtown Auburn, 100 S.
Main St., Auburn.
Trick-or-Treating:
4:30 p.m. Open to the

AUBURN — Auburn First United
Methodist Church will host a Christmas
Bazaar Friday, Nov. 8, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and Saturday, Nov. 9, from 8 a.m. to noon.

Email
your legal!
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for details
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
TOWN OF HAMILTON
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
The Town of Hamilton Board of
Zoning Appeals (BZA) shall hold a
public hearing as follows:
Date: 11th of November 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Town Office Meeting
Room, 900 S. Wayne Street, Hamilton, IN 46742
Petitioner: Jonell Gerig
Purpose of Public Hearing:
Variance from Development
Standard
X Variance of Use
Special Exception
Appeal Administrative Decision
Address of Property: 695 Lane 101
Hamilton Lake, Hamilton, IN 46742
Brief Description of Relief Sought:
Petitioner is requesting to combine
the lake front lot and the back lot into
one parcel of real estate for future
conveyances in order to build a storage/garage building. With a 10' rear
yard set back in lieu of the 20' set by
ordinance.
Date: 10/28/2013
Brent Shull, Town Manager
TS,00358363,10/31,hspaxlp
LEGAL NOTICE TO BIDDERS
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of School Trustees of the Garrett-Keyser-Butler Community
Schools, DeKalb County, Indiana, in
the Office of the Superintendent, 900
East Warfield Street, Garrett, Indiana, 46738 until 10:00 a.m. Eastern
Standard Time, Friday, November 8,
2013, for temporary loans to the Gar-

Auburn Elks donate to DeKalb Humane Society
The Auburn Elks Lodge 1978 donated
$600 to the DeKalb Humane Society
Friday, Oct. 18, at the lodge. From left are

rett-Keyser-Butler Community
Schools of up to $3,900,000 for the
benefit of its General Fund, of up to
$600,000 for the benefit of its Debt
Service Fund, of up to $300,000 for
the benefit of its Capital Projects
Fund, and of up to $200,000 for the
benefit of its Transportation Fund.
The temporary loan proceeds will be
utilized according to a mutually acceptable draw schedule. This will be
for the period of January 1, 2014
through December 31, 2014.
Bids for said loans shall be submitted in a sealed envelope marked
“Bids for Temporary Loans” and each
bid shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the bidder showing that no
collusion exists between such bidder
and any other bidder for such
loans. Bids will be opened at the time
and place mentioned and awarded at
the regular meeting of the Board of
School Trustees on Monday, November 25, 2013, to the bidder or bidders
offering to lend the money at the lowest rate of interest.
Said loans will bear interest at a
rate of not more than eight (8) percent per annum. The option to borrow the necessary amount as
needed, and for the interest to apply
to the particular amount borrowed, is
reserved by the Board of School
Trustees. The note or notes will be
paid out of the proceeds of taxes levied in 2013 payable in 2014 and
state tuition support distributions, for
it General Fund and/or Debt Service
Fund and/or Transportation Fund
and/or Capital Projects Fund. The full
amount of said note or notes consummated shall be due and payable
on or before December 31, 2014.
The Board of School Trustees reserves the right to reject any and all
bids and to waive any informalities
and/or irregularities in any bids.
Anthony L. Griffin
Secretary
Garrett-Keyser-Butler
Community Schools
Board of School Trustees
August 27, 2013
TS,00357268,10/24,31,hspaxlp

Readers Circle book club
The group will meet Thursday, Nov. 7,
at 6:30 p.m. to discuss “First Ladies” by
Margaret Truman. To participate, visit the
upstairs circulation desk for a copy of the
book.

Card making class
Participants will be able to make four
greeting cards to take home Thursday,
Nov. 14, at 6:30 p.m. Space is limited. To
register, call 357-4585.

Water coloring basics
Mary Thiel will share tips and techniques
on painting Saturday, Nov. 16, from 1-3
p.m. The class is for both experienced
and beginning painters. To register, call
357-4585.

Climbing your family tree
Kerry Baumgartner will lead “Climbing
Your Family Tree” Thursday, Nov. 21, at
6:30 p.m. Baumgartner will offer genealogy
programs at the library quarterly. The
session is a “work together” club from the
beginning.
Those attending the first program
will determine later meeting dates. The

program is a tool to share ideas, learn
about new genealogy sites and find a way
to organize information. The library also
plans to periodically bring in professionals
throughout the year.

Briefly
•
GMS Halloween
dance Friday

contact the JAM center at
357-1917.

GARRETT — All
Garrett Middle School
students are invited to a
Halloween dance Friday
from 8-10 p.m. at the Judy
A. Morrill Recreation
Center, 1200 E. Houston
St., Garrett.
The cost is $2 per
person. Students can wear
Halloween costumes and
enter the the contest for the
scariest, best dynamic duo,
funniest, cutest and most
creative awards.
For more information,

GARRETT — Psi Iota
Xi Sorority in Garrett
is taking orders for
homemade cheese balls
through Monday, Nov. 4.
The 12-ounce cheeseballs are available in three
flavors: original, chipped
beef and Hawaiian, for $6
apiece. Delivery will be
the week of Nov. 25.

Phone Sharon Berning
at 357-6308 or contact
any Psi Iota Xi member to
place an order.

Euchre club meets
every Thursday
GARRETT — The
Judy A. Morrill Recreation
Center Euchre Club is free
to the community and meets
every Thursday from 1-3
p.m. at the center, 1200 E.
Houston St., Garrett.
The JAM Center invites
guests to enjoy cards, food
and great company.

Social Security benefits
to increase by 1.5 percent
Cloudy with rain today. Storms expected
by this evening. Highs today will reach the
mid-60s. Low tonight of 49 degrees. Partly
sunny Friday with a daytime high of 56 and
an overnight low of 42. Rainy conditions will
return Saturday with lower temperatures.
Highs will reach 50 degrees, low of 33.

WASHINGTON (AP)
— Social Security benefits
will rise 1.5 percent in
January, giving millions of
retired and disabled workers
an average raise of $19 a
month to keep up with the
cost of living.
The increase is among
the smallest since automatic
adjustments were adopted
in 1975, and reflects the fact
that consumer prices haven’t
gone up much in the past
year. The annual cost-ofliving adjustment, or COLA,
is based on a government
measure of inflation that
was released Wednesday.
“Yea. Whoop-de-do,”
said Lance Colvin, a retired
office worker in Kirkland,
Wash. “That’s my opinion.”
Automatic COLAs
were adopted in 1975 so
that benefits for people on
fixed incomes would keep
pace with rising prices.
Some advocates for older
Americans, however,
complain that the COLA

sometimes falls short,
especially for people with
high medical costs.
Michael Hartzog of
Charleston, S.C., said the
small COLA will make it
difficult to keep up with his
wife’s medical bills.
“We’ll probably need to
reduce our spending even
more,” Hartzog said. “I
don’t know exactly how.”
Hartzog, 63, is retired
after working 38 years at the
Social Security Administration in South Carolina. He
said his federal pension and
Social Security benefits are
affected by the COLA.
The COLA affects
benefits for more than
one-fifth of the country:
nearly 58 million Social
Security recipients, as well
as benefits for millions of
disabled veterans, federal
retirees and people who
get Supplemental Security
Income, the disability
program for the poor.
Social Security pays

retired workers an average
of $1,272 a month. A 1.5
percent raise comes to about
$19.
Benefits are based on
lifetime earnings. The
more you make, the higher
your benefit — to a point.
For someone who retired
this year at age 66, the
maximum monthly benefit
is $2,533. That person will
get a raise of about $38 a
month.
The amount of wages
subject to Social Security
taxes is also going up.
Social Security is funded
by a 12.4 percent tax on
the first $113,700 in wages
earned by a worker, with
half paid by employers and
the other half withheld from
workers’ pay.
The wage threshold will
increase to $117,000 next
year, the Social Security
Administration said. Wages
above the threshold are not
subject to Social Security
taxes.

Employee charged with
stealing from law firm
BY AMY OBERLIN
aoberlin@kpcmedia.com

ANGOLA — A
bookkeeper for a local
attorney is accused of taking
around $10,000 from her
employer over the course of
a year.
Katherine C. Fulton, 32,
of Angola, was arrested
Tuesday on a warrant
charging her with Class
C felony forgery and five
counts of Class D felony
theft. She posted a $500
bond for her release from
Steuben County Jail and
will be arraigned at a later
date.
Fulton allegedly took
funds from the business
between May 4, 2012, and
June 3, 2013. The investigation was prompted when
another employee found

$2,300 in a bank bag in a
box under Fulton’s desk and
reported it to their employer,
police said.
Indiana State Police
Detective Kevin Smith
uncovered a series of
fraudulent transactions,
starting with a credit card
Fulton allegedly obtained
using her employer’s
information. She allegedly
racked up more than $1,000
in 23 transactions from May
4, 2012 through this year,
including visits to a tanning
salon, iTunes, a steakhouse,
Meijer and a Southwest
Airlines ticket on Jan. 27.
In addition, Fulton
made four ATM or debit
card withdrawals totalling
$1,900, court documents
charge.
From the office, Fulton

is accused of taking cash,
several times in 2012 and
four times in 2013, totaling
$4,335.
On three occasions,
court documents say, Fulton
wrote checks for non-existent services. Those checks
tallied $1,250, allegedly
written to Fulton Design and
PC Repair.
The case has been filed
in Steuben Superior Court.
Because Fulton had worked
with the Steuben County
Prosecutor’s Office through
her position at the law firm,
a special prosecutor, Tim
Cain of LaGrange, has been
assigned to the case.
The Class C felony
charge carries a prison term
of up to eight years, and
each theft count carries up
to a three-year term.

AP

Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius testifies in
Washington Wednesday before
the House Energy and Commerce

ISSUES: Sebelius contends signup system is secure
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Deaths & Funerals
•
FROM PAGE A4

Mattie Miller
LAGRANGE — Mattie
Marie Miller, 73, of
LaGrange died Tuesday,
Oct. 29, 2013, at Lutheran
Hospital in Fort Wayne.
Visitation will be all
day today at the family
residence, 1925 W. C.R.
300S, LaGrange.
Funeral services will be
at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the
Lavern O. Miller residence.
Burial will be in Miller
Cemetery, LaGrange.

Miller-Stewart Funeral
Home, Middlebury, is in
charge of arrangements.

Marie Picklesimer
GARRETT — Marie
(McIntosh) Picklesimer, 78,
of Garrett, died Wednesday,
Oct. 30, 2013, at the Laurels
of DeKalb in Butler.
Visitation will be from
noon to 2 p.m. Saturday
at the Nazarene Church in
Garrett. Services will follow
at 2 p.m. with Pastor Kyle
Lowry officiating.
Burial will take place at

1 p.m. Monday at Vernon
Cemetery, Vernon, Ind.
Thomas Funeral Home
in Garrett is in charge of
arrangements.

Fed leaves interest rates low
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The Federal Reserve says
the U.S. economy still needs
support from its low interestrate policies because it is
growing only moderately.
In a statement
Wednesday after a policy
meeting, the Fed said it
would keep buying $85
billion a month in bonds
to keep long-term interest
rates low and encourage
borrowing and spending.
Yet the Fed seemed to
signal that it thinks the
economy is improving
despite some recent weak
data and uncertainties
caused by the partial
government shutdown.
The Fed no longer
expresses concern, as it did
in September, that higher
mortgage rates could hold
back hiring and economic
growth. And its statement
makes no reference to the
16-day shutdown, which
economists say has slowed
growth this quarter.
Some analysts said this
suggests that the Fed might
be prepared to slow its bond

purchases by early next year
— sooner than some have
assumed.
“The tone was probably
more positive on the outlook
than most people expected,”
said Jim O’Sullivan, chief
U.S. economist at High
Frequency Economics.
Paul Ashworth, an
economist at Capital
Economics, said he was
struck by the absence of any
reference to the shutdown.
He called the statement
“remarkable for what it
omits rather than includes.”
Ashworth said that if
the Fed isn’t worried about
the economic impact of the
shutdown, it might be ready
to reduce its stimulus as
early as December. He still
thinks a pullback is most
likely early next year. But
Ashworth said the Fed’s
statement suggests that its
timing may have shifted.
Some economists noted
that Congress’ budget
fight has clouded the Fed’s
timetable for tapering its
bond purchases. Though
the government reopened

Oct. 17 and a threatened
default on its debt was
averted, Congress passed
only temporary fixes. More
deadlines and possible
disruptions lie ahead.
If the government
manages to avert another
shutdown in mid-January,
Dana Saporta, an economist
at Credit Suisse, said, “We
could see a taper as soon as
the Jan. 29th meeting.”
But she added that a
continued budget impasse
would likely delay any
pullback in the Fed’s bond
purchases until March or later.
Investors seemed to
conclude that the Fed
might be ready to reduce
its stimulus earlier than
expected. The Dow Jones
industrial average, which
had been down 29 points
before the Fed issued its
statement, fell nearly 53
points about two hours later.
And the yield on the
10-year Treasury note, a
benchmark for rates on
mortgages and other loans,
rose from 2.49 percent to
2.52 percent.

Committee about the difficulties
plaguing the implementation of the
Affordable Care Act.

committee that the technical
issues that led to frozen
screens and error messages
are being cleared up on a
daily basis.
Security issues raise
major new concerns on top
of the long list of technical
problems the administration
is grappling with.
“You accepted a risk on
behalf of every user … that
put their personal financial
information at risk,” Rep.
Mike Rogers, R-Mich., told
Sebelius, citing the memo.
“Amazon would never do
this. ... This is completely
an unacceptable level of
security.”
Sebelius countered that
the system is secure, even
though the site’s certificate, known in government
parlance as an “authority to
operate,” is of a temporary
nature. A permanent certificate will be issued only
when all security issues are
addressed, she stressed.
Spokeswoman Joanne
Peters added separately:
“When consumers fill out
their online … applications, they can trust that
the information they’re
providing is protected by
stringent security standards

and that the technology
underlying the application
process has been tested and
is secure. Security testing
happens on an ongoing
basis using industry best
practices.”
The security certificate is
required under longstanding
federal policy before any
government computer
system can process, store
or transmit agency data.
The temporary certificate
was approved by Medicare
chief Marilyn Tavenner, the
senior HHS official closest
to the rollout. No major
security breaches have been
reported.
The memo said, “From
a security perspective,
the aspects of the system
that were not tested due
to the ongoing development, exposed a level of
uncertainty that can be
deemed as a high risk for
the (federal marketplace
website).”
It recommended setting
up a security team to address
risks and conduct daily tests,
and said a full security test
should be conducted within
two to three months of the
website going live.
A separate page stated
that “the mitigation plan

does not reduce the risk to
the (website) itself going
into operation on October 1,
2013. However, the added
protections do reduce the
risk to the overall Marketplace operations and will
ensure that the … system is
completely tested within the
next 6 months.”
That page was signed
by three senior technical
officials below Tavenner at
the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services. All the
officials deal with information security issues.
Sebelius’ forthright
statement about her ultimate
accountability for problems
with the sign-up rollout
came as Rep. Marsha
Blackburn, R-Tenn.,
peppered her with questions
about the “debacle.”
“Hold me accountable
for the debacle,” Sebelius
responded. “I’m responsible.”
Rep. Henry Waxman
of California, the ranking
Democrat on the committee,
scoffed at Republican
“oversight” of a law they
have repeatedly tried to
repeal.
“I would urge my
colleagues to stop hyperventilating,” said Waxman.

SHOW: Stage resembles 1930s nightclub scene
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“It’s set up like a 1930s
club. This is the first time
our band is on stage in
the center of the singers,”
Johnson said.
The show’s first act
follows the composers’
careers from “radio days”
to their Broadway and
Hollywood eras. Act two
focuses on different types of
love songs.
“People will not
recognize the title of this
show,” Johnson said, but
he promised, “If they come,
they’ll go, ‘Oh, yes, I

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Red Sox romp to world title
BOSTON (AP) — David Ortiz
and the Boston Red Sox romped to
their third World Series championship in 10 seasons, thumping
October ace Michael Wacha
and the St. Louis Cardinals 6-1
Wednesday night in Game 6.
Shane Victorino drove in four
runs and John Lackey pitched
shutout ball into the seventh
inning as the Red Sox clinched a
crown on their own field for the
first time since 1918.
Fenway Park was rollicking,
with the crowd standing from
the very first pitch. Victorino
lined a three-run double off the
Green Monster in the third, and

the cheers, chants and singing of
“Sweet Caroline” only got louder
after that.
Many fans paid over $1,000
per ticket for this night, eager to
be part of an in-house celebration
that had been building for nearly a
century.
Ortiz drew three walks and
scored twice. He reached base a
whopping 19 times in 25 plate
appearances.
Lackey gave up one run in 6
2-3 innings, becoming the first
pitcher to start and win a World
Series clincher for two different
teams, having led the Angels past
Barry Bonds and the Giants in

Game 7 in 2002 as a rookie.
Stephen Drew hit a solo home
run that someone in a Red Sox
jacket caught in the bullpen. Mike
Napoli, back in the lineup with
Ortiz returning to the DH slot, hit
an RBI single into the “B Strong”
cutout in the grass that pays
tribute to the victims of the Boston
Marathon bombings.
The Cardinals dropped their
third straight game. After winning
Game 3 on an obstruction call,
they couldn’t seem to get out of
their own way.
A day after the Cardinals’
plane was delayed in St. Louis for
seven hours because of mechan-

ical problems, the NL champions
didn’t show up at Fenway. An
example? Jacoby Ellsbury reached
on second baseman Matt Carpenter’s error in the fifth, then got
picked off first but escaped a run
down when the Cards made four
throws to no avail.
Wacha, too, was downright
ordinary after such a brilliant run
this month.
The 22-year-old began the
evening at 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA
in four starts this postseason.
He escaped a jam in the third,
got tagged by Victorino in the
third and left during a three-run
fourth.

Beckmann’s time to shine All-NHC
Baron hopes last year’s state experience pays off Saturday

WATERLOO — All
of Mark Beckmann’s
training throughout the
summer and regular
season this fall paid
dividends in a major way
when the end of the year
rolled around.
The DeKalb junior
didn’t win his first
individual title until
the Northeast Hoosier
Conference Meet on
Oct. 5, the last meet of
the regular season. But
it proved to be a sign
of things to come, with
Beckmann winning the
sectional title, finishing
second at the regional
and third in the semistate
— all of which was more
than good enough to
qualify Beckmann for
Saturday’s Indiana High
School Athletic Association State Finals in Terre
Haute.
“It took a lot of hard
work to get back here
but it’s all paying off,”
said Beckmann, who
logged more than 300
miles running during the
summer. “And now we
just got to keep setting
bigger goals next year and
try and go for a medal.”
Both Beckmann and
head coach Rowland
Perez aren’t satisfied
with just making it to the
state finals. Beckmann
advanced to the state
meet last year, finishing
45th (16 minutes, 10.6
seconds). This year the
goals are much higher,
the biggest being to
reach the podium. The

top 20 finishers in the
state earn that distinction, while the top 25
runners are selected to
the all-state team.
Beckmann’s best
time this year is 15:34,
accomplished at the
Bruin Invite. The junior
surmises that he’ll need
a time somewhere in
the low 15:40s to place
among the top 20 across
the Hoosier State.
“I would like to be on
the podium this year,”
Beckmann said.
In order to do that
though, Beckmann will
have to alter his strategy
from last year. The
Lavern Gibson Championship Cross Country
Course at Indiana State
University is all downhill
for the first half of the
race and, last year,
Beckmann didn’t pace
himself properly and lost
some steam when the
course reached the hills.
“You have to be
careful,” Perez said.
“The adrenaline’s
going, the crowd will
be pumping you up and
halfway through is when
you die and and they hit
the hills.”
To do that means to
stay with the pack of
top 20 runners or so,
but to avoid running too
quickly out of the gates.
And Beckmann’s state
finals experience from
last year will certainly
help.
“I’m better at hills
so that’ll help me a lot,”
Beckmann said. “I’ve
just got to stay on my

7 East Noble players
named to First Team

KEN FILLMORE

DeKalb junior Mark Beckmann hopes to reach
the podium — finishing in the top-20 — in
Saturday’s Indiana High School Athletic Association Cross Country State Finals at Wabash Valley
Sports Center in Terre Haute.

feet.
“It’ll make me feel
better knowing that I
know what to expect
now. There will be a
bunch of people people
running and watching

the race. I didn’t really
know what expect when
I got there last year, and
you’re looking at the
buses and wondering
where the heck these
SEE BECKMANN, PAGE B2

Pacers rally past New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Paul
George scored 32, George Hill
capped a 19-point performance
with pivotal 3-pointer in the final
minute, and the Indiana Pacers
erased a 16-point deficit en route
to a 95-90 victory over the New
Orleans Pelicans on Wednesday
night.
Former New Orleans forward
David West helped Indiana spoil
the home opener for the rebranded
Pelicans by hitting four free throws
in the final 1:06 and finished with
12 points. Lance Stephenson scored
16 points for the Pacers, who had
opened their season a night earlier
with a victory over Orlando.
Roy Hibbert blocked five shots
and Ian Mahinmi blocked four for
Indiana, which had 12 blocks in all.
Eric Gordon scored 25 points and
former Philadelphia All-Star Jrue
Holiday added 24 in his Pelicans
debut. Anthony Davis had 20 points,
12 rebounds and three blocks.
The Pelicans led 85-81 after
Holiday’s jumper, but Hibbert
scored on a spin move in the paint
while drawing center Jason Smith’s
sixth foul, and then made the free
throw to make it 85-84.
West then snagged the rebound
of Holiday’s missed jumper and
soon after drew a foul, setting up
the first of his late free throws
to give Indiana the lead for
good. After Davis’ driving layup
attempt rimmed out, Hill drilled
a straight-on 3 with 31.1 seconds
left, and New Orleans could not

grid teams
announced

AP

Indiana Pacers center Ian Mahinmi (28) shoots over New Orleans
Pelicans forward Jason Smith in the first half of an NBA basketball
game in New Orleans on Wednesday.

recover.
Trailing 52-36 after Smith’s
basket opened scoring in the third

period, Indiana quickly closed
the gap with a 10-0 run fueled by
Hill’s layup and 3-pointer.

AUBURN HILLS,
Mich. (AP) — Greg
Monroe had 24 points
and 16 rebounds, and the
new-look Detroit Pistons
won their season opener in
convincing fashion, beating
the Washington Wizards
113-102 Wednesday night.
Andre Drummond added
12 points and eight rebounds
for Detroit, which is hoping
to snap a streak of four
straight seasons without
reaching the playoffs. The
Pistons signed Josh Smith
and Chauncey Billups in
the offseason and added
Brandon Jennings in a
trade. Jennings did not play
Wednesday — he’s been
bothered by a wisdom tooth.
Trevor Ariza scored 28
points for the Wizards, who
were outscored 56-28 in the
paint.
Smith had 19 points for

the best runners in the state.
He’ll be in a pack of 20
people and once he gets
there he’s going to separate
himself. Everything we’ve
done for this one race, it’s
up to him to run the race.
We’re pretty confident he’ll
get it done.”
Another accomplishment
the Baron achieved was
reaching the top-10 list for
fastest times in the program
since 2000.
“Hard work motivates
you, and your coaches
motivate you,” Beckmann
said. “And all of your
friends when they talk about
it. It just keeps you going.”
There are 208 runners
in the race, which begins at
1 p.m. Saturday. You can
watch the race online at
www.ustream.tv/channel/
terre-haute-north-video.

schools are from. That’s
quite fun to see.”
Said Perez, ” It’s a crazy,
crazy atmosphere and he’s
been there. He knows the
course, he likes the course
and all of that is going in
his favor. He knows exactly
what to do. He’s a textbook
athlete. He does everything
we ask and then some.
Beckmann is also
motivated by last week’s
third-place finish at the
semistate. Beckmann
appeared to have second
place locked up — behind
defending state runner-up
Zach Panning of Concordia
— but was chased down by
Homestead’s Brayden Law
and finished third.
“He’s not going to be in
the pack he was last year,”
Perez said. “He is one of

Detroit. Washington’s John
Wall had 20 points and 11
assists, but went 8 of 21
from the field.
Detroit led 89-85 in the
fourth when Kyle Singler
pushed the lead to seven
with a driving three-point
play. Billups later made
back-to-back 3-pointers to
make it 100-87.
Washington is hoping
to reach the playoffs for
the first time since 2008,
but it may be awhile before
the Wizards or Pistons
really have a sense of
how improved they are.
Washington was without
first-round draft pick Otto
Porter, who has been out
with a right hip flexor
problem. Center Marcin
Gortat, acquired from
Phoenix in a trade last week,
did not start and played only
17 minutes.

everything,”
he said.
“Winning
this big
race can
always do
that, and
that’s what
I’ve been
trying to
do all year
— to get
my name
out there,
to keep
pushing,
to strive
for kids
younger
Darrell Wallace Jr. celebrates
than me to his history-making win in the
get in the
Kroger 200 at Martinsville
sport and
Speedway.
be here sitting here talking to [the media] one day.”
Wallace’s win came a week after he
endured the hardest crash of his career, at
Talladega Superspeedway, which ironically
was the same place that Scott’s Sprint
Cup career essentially ended because of
injuries suffered in a wreck in 1973.
Asked at Martinsville who he would like
to call — if he could — to talk about the
win, Wallace mentioned the NASCAR Hall
of Fame nominee who was among the ﬁrst
African-Americans to race in NASCAR.
“If Wendell Scott was alive, I would like
to call him, but I can call Wendell Scott
Jr.,” he said. “He sent me a text after
Talladega and said just please just send
a letter or a text or word back to make
sure, to let me know that you’re all right,
because he said he had déjà vu of his dad
at Talladega.”

Nearly 50 years ago, on Dec. 1, 1963, at
a dirt track in Jacksonville, Fla., the late
Wendell Scott made history by becoming
the ﬁrst African-American to win a major
NASCAR race.
On Saturday at Martinsville Speedway,
Darrell Wallace Jr. became the second by
winning the Kroger 200 in the Camping
World Truck Series.
Wallace, driving a Toyota for Kyle Busch
Motorsports, started third and led 96 laps,
including the ﬁnal 50, to get the victory in
his 19th career start in the series.
Like any other ﬁrst-time winner, Wallace
was overcome by emotion when the checkered ﬂag came into view.
“I’m speechless,” he said as he climbed
from his truck. “God, I couldn’t even hold
it together coming off (Turn) Four with the
checkered. I still can’t.”
The 20-year-old driver from Mobile, Ala.,
said he was proud to have scored his ﬁrst
win at a track not far down the road from
Scott’s hometown of Danville, Va.
“To do it here in the backyard of Wendell
Scott means so much more, and like it’ll
take tomorrow for this to ﬁnally hit me, so
I might be crying again tomorrow, but this
is an emotional win and a big win for all of
us,” he said.
Wallace is now the second member of
NASCAR’s Drive for Diversity program
to win a major event, joining Kyle Larson, who is part Japanese and who won a
Truck race at Rockingham Speedway in
April. And Wallace knows and embraces
the fact that as such, he’s now in the position of being a role model for other up-andcoming young racers.
“I want to be a role model and inspiration to the younger kids, and just change
the sport as a whole and change it for the
better; bring in a new face and just new
activity into the sport, and winning helps

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Darrell Wallace Jr. makes history at Martinsville
Speedway in Camping World Truck Series Kroger 200

Darrell Wallace Jr. gives the crowd a burnout after his victory on Saturday.
Wallace’s team owner Kyle Busch was
proud to be a part of Saturday’s historic
accomplishment.
“I’m happier for Darrell than for anybody, but this is certainly a monumental
day, and hopefully one that he’ll remember
for a long time and can cherish,” Busch
said. “The ﬁrst one is always the most
important one because it seems like they
can just come right after that pretty easily.
“We’ve seen great things out of Darrell
this year, and he’s really come a long ways
throughout the season.”
Despite his success, Wallace is still uncertain about his 2014 racing plans, but a
major victory could change that.
“Winning deﬁnitely helps out with sponsorship,” he said. “I’d love to be back in a
Toyota Tundra for Kyle, competing for wins
each and every weekend, especially now
after this. We’ve learned a lot and we’ve
still got three races to learn, and to do that
again next year, we should be going for that
championship and a hard one to beat.”

Rusty Jarrett for Chevrolet

The history-making at Martinsville
Speedway, which started with Darrell
Wallace Jr.’s win in Saturday’s Truck
race, continued Sunday when Jeff
Gordon, one of NASCAR’s all-time great
drivers, broke a season-long winless
streak and ran his career total to 88
Sprint Cup victories. Only Richard Petty, with 200 wins, and David Pearson,
with 105, are ahead of him in all-time
Cup victories.
Gordon’s win also put him in a tie
with his teammate Jimmie Johnson for
most Martinsville wins among active
drivers. They now have eight apiece, but
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trail Richard Petty, with 15 wins, and
Darrell Waltrip, with 11, on the all-time season in Victory Lane at Martinsville.
Martinsville winners’ list.
Although Gordon spent most of his
seems to
winner’s interview talking about the rest of the schedule and his
embrace him
Gordon, who started the Chase 13th in points,
hopes of overtaking Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson, who lead
and celebrate
him by 27 points with three races remaining, he did acknowledge the
his accomplish- moved to within striking distance of the points
leaders.
signiﬁcance of his latest win, one in which he outdueled Kenseth in
ments now,
the closing stages to get the victory.
whereas before, he was greeted mostly with boos.
“This is a special one for many reasons,” he said. “It’s Martinsville.
Sunday’s crowd at Martinsville seemed to be solidly behind the 42That grandfather clock (that goes to the winner) is very special. Very
year-old veteran, who was roundly booed two decades ago when he
historical race track. It’s one that’s been very good to me. Also memowas outrunning the popular veterans of that era.
ries, not-so-good memories, so there’s a lot of meaning to winning at
“I’ve never felt more support from my fans than this year, and I
this track.”
think it has a lot to do with social media,” he said. “But that kind of
He also said the win was special because it’s been so long since he’s
response, where they’re sticking around after the race — and while I
celebrated one, as his last win before Martinsville was at Homecan’t hear and see everything going on when I’m passing for the lead
stead-Miami Speedway last November.
or getting the checkered ﬂag — I had a lot of people telling me the
“I think it’s just really why it’s going to stick with me is because it’s
reaction, and that’s so cool. I think that’s awesome.
been a tough year,” he said.
“Whether I’m at the track hearing it one-on-one from the fans or
For Gordon, like other successful drivers who have been in the
reading about it on Twitter or Facebook, through all that we’ve been
sport for years and have experienced both highs and lows, the fans
through this year, I’ve never had more support.”

Christa L. Thomas for Chevrolet

Jeff Gordon captures his first win of the season with
Sprint Cup victory at Martinsville Speedway

NASCAR announced last week that
beginning next season, the sanctioning body will require drivers to undergo
preseason baseline testing as part of its
concussion prevention and management
program.
“NASCAR made this decision because
we think it is important to drivers’ health
for doctors to have the best information
and tools available in evaluating injuries,”
Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR vice president
of racing operations, said in making the
announcement.
Baseline testing will be done with an
ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion
Assessment and Cognitive Testing) test.
Drivers were encouraged to have the
tests this year, but they will be required
next season.

Bill Elliott finishes fourth
in Late Model
Veteran Sprint Cup driver Bill Elliott,
who hasn’t raced in Cup since July 2012,
was back behind the wheel of a race car a
couple of weeks ago in a Late Model race
at South Alabama Speedway in Opp, Ala.,
where he finished fourth in a 125-lap race
won by his son, Chase Elliott.
“Chase and the guys on the crew talked
me into it,” Elliott said. “It was a lot of
fun.”
Elliott finished just ahead of Harrison
Burton, the 13-year-old son of Sprint Cup
driver Jeff Burton.
“It felt kind of weird racing someone that
young,” Elliott said, “especially when you’re
58.”

Kevin Harvick sounds off
after Martinsville crash
In the heat of the moment during the
Kroger 200 Truck race at Martinsville,
Kevin Harvick shed some light on the reasons behind his decision to leave Richard
Childress Racing and move to StewartHaas Racing next season.
Harvick and Ty Dillon — one of two racing grandsons of his current car owner,
Richard Childress — wrecked on the track,
banged fenders several times under caution and had another incident on pit road.
Harvick sounded off to the media afterward, saying Dillon was a “rich kid” who
hadn’t earned his place as a NASCAR
driver and blamed him for the wreck.
“The 3 (Dillon) just dumped me,” Harvick
said. “Exactly the reason why I’m leaving
RCR, because you’ve got those (Dillon) kids
coming up and they’ve got no respect for
what they do in this sport, and they’ve had
everything fed to them with a spoon. So,
I cut him slack all day and he just divebombs me in there; dumps me.”
Dillon, a Truck Series regular, said
Harvick had it coming.
“He got sideways and then he hit the
brakes and tried to brake-check me,”
Dillon said, adding that he “just finished
(Harvick) off.”
And he was disappointed that Harvick
wouldn’t discuss the incident afterward.
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DeKalb season tickets on sale
WATERLOO — DeKalb boys basketball
season tickets continue to be on sale in the
DeKalb High School main office. Reserved
tickets are $40, adult non-reserved boys
basketball season tickets are $35 and student
boys basketball tickets are $30. There are
10 home boys varsity basketball games this
year. Fans with reserved seats are asked to
purchase their tickets prior to Nov. 7.
If you currently have a reserved ticket
and do not intend to renew this year, please
notify the athletic department immediately
by calling 920-1601.
Tickets are sold in the DeKalb High
School main office from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30

p.m. Monday through Thursday. No tickets
are sold on Fridays.

Meet The Marines Nov. 15
HAMILTON — Hamilton will have a
Meet the Team barbeque on Nov. 15 at 6:30
p.m.
The cost is $10 per plate and the dinner in
the school’s cafeteria will include pulled pork,
coleslaw, baked beans, dessert and a drink.
Food will be furnished by Pettisville Meats.
The cost will also include a raffle ticket
and pay for door prizes.
After dinner, the Marines will play two
10-minute scrimmages in the HHS gym.
To purchase tickets for this event, see a
member of the team, email first-year coach
Fred Andrews at Fred.Andrews@hcs.k12.

SPORTS BRIEFS
•
Achonwa out for ND women
SOUTH BEND (AP) — Notre Dame
forward Natalie Achonwa is likely out for
more than a month with a knee injury.
Achonwa underwent surgery last week
for a small meniscus tear in her right knee,
coach Muffet McGraw said Wednesday
after the Irish beat California, Pa., 118-49
in an exhibition game. She is expected
to be out four to six weeks, McGraw
said, which would mean she would be
back before the Irish enter their inaugural
season in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The 6-foot-3 senior averaged 13.8 points
and 9.5 rebounds last season. McGraw said
she hopes freshman Taya Reimer can help
fill the void until Achonwa returns, but said
the Irish need someone else to step forward
to help ease the load.
“We need a 1-2 punch in the post and
right now we’ve just got that one punch,”
McGraw said.
The 6-3 Reimer was perfect in the exhibition game, going 11-of-11 from the floor and
making all five free throw attempts. She also
had six rebounds and three assists.

76ers stun defending champs
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Spencer
Hawes scored 24 points and hit the
winning basket late in the fourth quarter to
lead the Philadelphia 76ers past the Miami
Heat 114-110 on Wednesday night.
The Sixers were strong from the
opening tip, they made their first 11 shots
and raced to a stunning 26-4 lead. The
Heat, though, erased the deficit in the
third quarter and appeared to take control
behind LeBron James.
Hawes hit a 3-pointer, then a driving
layup for a 109-108 lead with 2:01 left.
James blew two straight chances to put
Miami up, losing the ball on a drive down
the middle, then missed a 6-footer on the
next possession.
Shane Battier missed his seventh
straight 3-point attempt, and the Sixers put
the game away from the free-throw line.
Michael Carter-Williams had 22 points,
12 assists and set an NBA first-game
record with nine steals for the Sixers.

Iverson retires from NBA
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Allen
Iverson’s highlights played one more time
on the big screen, diehard 76ers fans and
Julius Erving all part of the crowd catching
one more glimpse of No. 3 in his prime.
All there. All as much part of Iverson’s
DNA as the rants about practice, the
cornrows, the controversy. All in the past.
This was time for A.I. to say goodbye.
Iverson officially called it quits —
though, in truth, it was the NBA that gave
up on him — nearly four years after he
played his final game.
He did it in typical A.I. flair, eschewing
a suit fit for an elder statesman for a black,
leather hoodie, askew black cap and a gold
chain around his neck. “I always felt like it
was cool being me,” Iverson said.
Iverson retired Wednesday at the Wells
Fargo Center. Iverson led the Sixers to the
2001 NBA finals, won four scoring titles,
and was an All-Star game fixture. Winning
a championship is the lone void in a bio
sheet that forever stamps him among the
league’s greats.
The undersized guard with the
supersized heart was a perfect match in a
city that prizes authenticity and hustle as
much as production. “I’m going to always
be a Sixer til I die,” he said.

Chamblee sorry for insinuating
that Tiger Woods cheated
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Golf Channel
analyst Brandel Chamblee said Wednesday
it was mistake to compare Tiger Woods’
rules violation to his own episode of
cheating on a fourth-grade math test and
that he would stop writing for the website
where his column appeared.
“I said Tiger Woods was cavalier about
the rules. I should have stopped right there,”
Chamblee said Wednesday night in his first
appearance on Golf Channel since his column
was posted to golf.com nearly two weeks ago.
“In comparing those incidents to my
cheating episode in the fourth grade, I
went too far,” he said. “Cheating involves
intent. Now, I know what my intent was
on that fourth-grade math test. But there’s
no way that I could know with 100 percent
certainty what Tiger’s intent was in any of
those situations. That was my mistake.”
His comments came two days after
Woods and his agent, Mark Steinberg at
Excel Sports, put pressure on Golf Channel
to do something.

Oneida Indian Nation wants
meeting with all NFL owners

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in.us, or call the HHS office at 488-2161.
Tickets will also be sold at the door on Nov.
15.

NEW YORK (AP) — Characterizing
their meeting with the NFL about their
disapproval of the use of Redskins by the
Washington franchise as disappointing,
representatives of the Oneida Indian
Nation requested a meeting with all 32
NFL owners during Super Bowl week.
They hope to persuade the other team
owners and Commissioner Roger Goodell
to put pressure on Redskins owner Daniel
Snyder to drop the nickname they find
offensive.
“Given the way the meeting transpired,”
Ray Halbritter, an Oneida representative
and leader of the “Change the Mascot
Campaign,” said Wednesday, “it became
somewhat evident they were defending
the continued use of the name. Of course,
we’re disappointed.”

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013

Happy home life stops
couple from going out
DEAR ABBY: My
boyfriend, “Mark,” and
I have been together for
a year. We met at work,
and have dated ever since.
Several months ago we were
offered a job opportunity in
another state. We moved in
together and are happy.
My problem is, over the
past few months we have
been living together, our
personal relationship has
come to a halt. We still care
about each other deeply,
but no longer do the things
couples do. We don’t go out
on dates or see the new city
we’ve moved to.
Do you have any advice
on how I can get Mark to
go out and see the sights
without sounding whiny
or pushy? — BALTIMORE
AND D.C. BECKON
DEAR BALTIMORE:
Tell Mark the two of you
appear to have become
housebound and you don’t
think it’s healthy — partic-

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in order.
DEAR ABBY: My son’s
birthday was yesterday. I
invited him to dinner at a
very nice restaurant. When
he showed up, he had two
other men with him. They
didn’t offer to pay for their
food, so I had to pay for all
of us.
My son is 32, and I would
like to say something about
this to him. Or should I
just not invite him to nice
dinners out? — TAKEN
ADVANTAGE OF IN
SUGARLAND, TEXAS
DEAR TAKEN
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SAY something to him.
DEAR ABBY is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also
known as Jeanne Phillips, and
was founded by her mother,
Pauline Phillips. Write Dear
Abby at DearAbby.com or
P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles,
CA 90069.

On this date Oct. 31:
• In 1517, Martin Luther
posted his 95 Theses on
the door of the Wittenberg
Palace church, marking
the start of the Protestant
Reformation in Germany.
• In 1941, work was
completed on the Mount
Rushmore National
Memorial in South Dakota,
begun in 1927.
• In 1968, President
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered
a halt to all U.S. bombing of
North Vietnam.

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Peripheral neuropathy has many causes
something as light as a feather
(like some cotton), you may
not feel it. However, you will
feel it if the cotton touches
your skin in the thigh or
elsewhere in
the body. You
may also lose
sensation to
a pinprick in
the lower legs
and feet, but
not the rest of
you.
ASK Diabetes
DOCTOR K. is the most
common
cause of
Dr. Anthony peripheral
neuropathy.
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from other
causes as well.
These include:
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alcohol intake.
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DEAR DOCTOR K: I
have peripheral neuropathy. I
know that people with diabetes
often get neuropathy, but I’m
not diabetic. What else can
cause this condition? And
what can I do about it?
DEAR READER:
Neuropathy is a medical term
that means nerve damage.
The type of nerve damage
that people with diabetes get
involves specific nerve fibers
in all nerves, particularly the
nerves that travel to the legs
and feet. (There are other
conditions in which a single
nerve leading to the legs and
feet is pinched, causing pain.
An example is what is often
called a “slipped disk” or
“herniated disk.”
The symptoms of peripheral neuropathy include
numbness and tingling. Some
cases cause burning, shooting
or stabbing pain. When
the doctor does a physical
examination and touches
your feet and lower legs with

ularly because Baltimore
and Washington, D.C.,
have many entertainment
and cultural opportunities
to offer.
Then create
a “bucket
list” and
have him
choose from
the menu
of choices
that are
DEAR available. If
doesn’t
ABBY that
inspire him,
ask HIM
to create a
Jeanne Phillips list, or start
exploring on
your own.
If you are
successful at getting Mark
out of the house, it may
liven up your relationship.
But if it doesn’t, you may
have more serious problems
to deal with, and a heart-toheart talk with him about
your entire relationship is

enough that such testing is
unnecessary.
Treatment of peripheral
neuropathy begins with
treating the underlying cause
of the condition. For example,
let’s say your neuropathy is
related to heavy drinking.
You should severely restrict,
or better yet abstain, from
alcohol. If your neuropathy
is caused by hypothyroidism,
treatment with replacement
doses of thyroid hormone
should help.
The other goal of treatment
is to relieve symptoms. In
particular, treatment targets
pain caused by peripheral
neuropathy. Several medications can help. Gabapentin,
an anticonvulsant medication,
is usually effective. Tricyclic
antidepressants can also
effectively relieve pain.
DR. KOMAROFF is a physician and
professor at Harvard Medical
School. His website is AskDoc
torK.com.

Steuben County
Council on Aging
Inc./STAR Public
Transportation
is looking for a
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE
DRIVER
This is a part-time, permanent position. Public
Passenger Chauffeurs
license required. The
right candidate will have
effective communication
skills, ability to assist
passengers boarding
and disembarking
including usage of lift
equipment and mobility
device securement, and
a pleasant, patient
demeanor to safely
transport our clients to
their destinations.
Knowledge of Steuben
County and surrounding
area a plus. If you are
looking to be part of a
dynamic team that
enjoys working with the
public, then we would
like to talk to you.
Equal Opportunity
Employer
Applications can be
picked up at::
Council on
Aging/STAR
Steuben Community
Center
317 S. Wayne
Suite 1B
Angola, IN
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